By: Brown S.B. No. 1464
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to an exemption from the industrial solid waste
1-2 collection, handling, storage, and processing permitting process
1-3 for such activities on land owned or controlled by the source of
1-4 the waste.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 361, Texas Health & Safety Code, is
1-7 amended by amending Section 361.090(a) to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 361.090. Regulation and Permitting of Certain
1-9 Industrial Solid Waste Disposal. (a) The commission may not
1-10 require a permit under this chapter for the collection, handling,
1-11 storage, processing, and disposal of industrial solid waste that is
1-12 [disposed of] collected, handled, stored, or processed within the
1-13 boundaries of a tract of land that is:
1-14 (1) owned or otherwise effectively controlled by the
1-15 owners or operators of the particular industrial plant,
1-16 manufacturing plant, mining operation, or agricultural operation
1-17 from which the waste results or is produced; and
1-18 (2) only in the case of disposal, located within 50
1-19 miles from the plant or operation that is the source of the
1-20 industrial solid waste.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.